I assume everything tweeted or facebooked by any Palin or other politico is written by a ghost writer, and I'd treat this no differently. There's a reason why people like them have "handlers"; their image is carefully controlled and manipulated.

But Palin's "handlers" have shown they are not particularly great at their jobs. She has always had a tendency to "go rogue," or otherwise go off-message on television, in print and online. If her people were actually decent at handling her image, half of America wouldn't be sitting around talking about how she's a ignorant, evil, though admittedly folksy moron who would be catastrophically dangerous for this country. But we are. Because she is.

I disagree; I think they're doing an amazing job of ensuring she remains in the public eye. Think about it. She had a failed VP run. She quit her role as Governor of Alaska. She landed a job a correspondent for Fox News and a full season of a show solely about her "life" in Alaska. News outlets are even speculating that she will run for President in 2012. Have you heard nearly half as much out of John McCain since his campaign ended?

She's not going off-message at all. Her handlers are purposely painting her in a light that will appeal to one subset of people while disgusting another subset so that they will constantly talk about her. People in the middle or people who don't care still cannot escape her because she's constantly on the TV, or in the mainstream news outlets, or in workplace discussions. We can't get rid of her, despite her lack of relevance, because no one will stop talking about her.

I assume everything tweeted or facebooked by any Palin or other politico is written by a ghost writer, and I'd treat this no differently. There's a reason why people like them have "handlers"; their image is carefully controlled and manipulated.

I like to think Putin writes his own tweets.

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I assume everything tweeted or facebooked by any Palin or other politico is written by a ghost writer, and I'd treat this no differently. There's a reason why people like them have "handlers"; their image is carefully controlled and manipulated.

I like to think Putin writes his own tweets.

Without knowing which Putin account you're referring to (and assuming this isn't a joke), I doubt any of them are actually Vladimir Putin, or even someone representing him since none of the accounts are verified.

I assume everything tweeted or facebooked by any Palin or other politico is written by a ghost writer, and I'd treat this no differently. There's a reason why people like them have "handlers"; their image is carefully controlled and manipulated.

I like to think Putin writes his own tweets.

Without knowing which Putin account you're referring to (and assuming this isn't a joke), I doubt any of them are actually Vladimir Putin, or even someone representing him since none of the accounts are verified.

The one I write is the real one.

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I've been surprised by the percentage of my friends and performers who I admire who have come out against criticizing Palin for having a role in the shooting. Their position is that even if Palin is a horrible person and bad politician, it doesn't mean her crosshairs map is responsible for Loughner's actions. While I agree it's possible that the crosshairs map didn't come into mind for Loughner at all, it doesn't get Palin off the hook for what was an inappropriate action. Whether the shooting had happened or not, the crosshairs map would still have been wrong, and it seems like Palin's team knows it since they're taking it off the web and pretending it was a surveyor symbol and not a target.

Whether the shooting had happened or not, the crosshairs map would still have been wrong, and it seems like Palin's team knows it since they're taking it off the web and pretending it was a surveyor symbol and not a target.

This is how I feel. I don't think it's her fault, however, her reaction is shitty. She could've just said that while she believes that the shooter is responsible for his own actions, she now realizes that her target campaign was probably in bad taste and she'll try to be more sensitive in the future.

But then she would be ignoring the time honored tradition that politicians have of back pedaling like mad.

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Poor Sarah Palin. Honestly, I think the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories ala Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, etc. is more dangerous to the national discourse than Palin's target map, but her perpetual victimhood is really laughable.

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Palin is accusing the media of "blood libel." THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT MEANS!

Total fail.

Wow, that woman keeps peeling away layers of ignorance to reveal even more appalling layers of ignorance! What a scary, shameless individual. Instead of retracting and apologizing, I bet she tries to claim an alternate definition of blood libel.

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You're just trying to cover your shame at not having been aware of this new, cutting-edge definition.

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"so as not to impugn Sarah Palin's reputation as she is a Living Person"

What?

Wikipedia has strong rules about writing anything negative that can't be strictly verified on a living person's biographical entry. But there are lots of records of her using the phrase this way, so that doesn't really apply.